In an article published in the June 2003 Astronomical Journal, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Spain, and Williams College ...

A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential “cosmic glitch” in the universe’s gravity, explaining its strange behaviour on a ...

Recent astronomical research indicates that our Earth may be embedded within one of the largest known structures in the observable universe. Scientists have identified a vast ring of galaxies that ...

WASHINGTON - Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives birth to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot this ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. However, a new study ...

Scientists have been scratching their heads at the expansion of the universe since it was discovered nearly a century ago, particularly applying fundamental theories such as Einstein's Theory of ...